Method of forming spouts or handles for coffeepots or similar articles



2 Sheets-Shem 1 H. l. CLU LEE July 2, 1929.

uE'raonoF FORMING SPOUTS on HANDLES FOR COFFEEPOTS on SIMILAR ARTICLESFiled Jan. 12, 1928 F/Gffl.

H. I. CLULEE METHOD OF FORMING SPOUTS OR HANDLES FOR COFFEEPOTS ORSIIILAR ARTICLES July 2, 1929,

Filed Jan. 12. 1928 2 Shuts-Sheet 2 Patented July 2, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY I. CL'ULEE, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORTO R. WALLACE &SONS MFG. 00., OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

METHOD O]? FORMING SPOUTS OR HANDLES FOR OOFFEEIOTS OR SIMILAR ARTICLES.

Application filed January 12, 1928.

This invention relates to iinprovcment in method of forming spouts andhandles for co'tl'eepots and similar articles. In the more generalconstruction of handles and spouts i'or cotleepots, they are -torincdfrom two C0111- plementary pieces which are secured together at theiredges, but such handles and spouts willv not stand the strain imposedupon them in the rough handling they receive in hotels and. restaurants,and, furthermore, it is ditlicult to secure the parts together so as toform a pertect joint. The object of this invention is to swage thespouts or l'iandles from a single piece of tubing and form that tubingby means of dies, as will be hereinalter described and particularlyrecited in the claim.

in the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a spout tor a coli'eepot or similar articleconstructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view of a blank from which the spout is formed from, apiece of sheetmetal Fig. 3 is a side view of a blank formed trom a pieceof tubing;

Fig. t is a :ctional view of blank-bending dies;

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line oi Fig. l; i

Fig. 6 is a side View of the bent blank;

Fig. 7 is an inside view of one of the finishing dies, showing); asectional View 01'? the finished blank with the expanding-tool in itsfinal position; and

Fig. 8 is a sectional View on the line 88 o l": Fig. 7.

In illustrating my invention, I have shown a spout, but it will beperfectly obvious that handles can be formed in the same manner. Thespout 10 is tormed from a tubular blank 11. which may be drawn from ametal blank, so as to have a closed end 1.2, or it may be formed from apiece of tubing, as shown in Fig. of the drawings, which illustrates ablankadapted to be cut in two, so as to form two blanks. In either case,one end of the blank is larger in diameter than the other. A blank thusformed is placed between bending dies 13 and 14 having complementarySerial No. 246,368.

longitudinally-curved grooves 15 and 16 between which the blank isplaced, so that when the dies are forced together, as shown in Fig. 5 ofthe drawings, the blank will be g iyen the desired curvature, indicated.in I! 1g. of the drawings. The blank thus curved is then placed betweenfinishing-dies 17 and 18 which have complementary curved groves 19 and20 corresponding to the curved blank, while at the upper ends thesegrooves flare to form a mouth 21 corresponding to the socket-end ot thespout or handle. A forming-tool 22 is then inserted into the blank at anangle represented in broken lines in Fig. 7, the nose 23 ot theforming-die being curved, enters the blank, and as the formingtool.'lorced. downward and rocked to a vertical position, one end of theblank cxpanifled to form the socket-end 24, which soldered to a cotlepotor similar article in the usual way.

It will thus be seen that with this method and with these dies, a spoutis readily formed from a single piece of metal, so asto avoid connectingthe abutting edges of a two-part spout, thus not only improving thecharacter of the spout itself, but greatly reducing the cost ofmanufacture. i lVhile I have shown and described the construction of a.spout, it obvious, without further illustration, that handles can beproduced in the same way, forming a socket at each end of the blank.

I. claim:

A method of :torming a spout or handle for cotleepots or similararticles, consisting in forming a tubular blank larger in dianieter atone end than at the other end, inserting this blank between bending-diesby which it is curved longitudinally, then inserting the curved blankbetween linisl'iingdies, and then forcing a curved expanding tool byrocking l'llOVGlTlQllll into the larger end of the blank between thefinishing-dies, whereby as the curved expanding tool is rocked, thelarger end of the blank will be expanded.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification.

HARRY I. CLULEE.

